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A holed fourree Roman Republican denarius of Q. Minucius M.f. Thermus showing Mars and a soldier fighting a barbarian Coin Type: Fourrée silver and base metal denarius of Q. Minucius M.f. Thermus, Roman Republic, 103 BCE.
Mint and Date: Rome, 103 BCE.
Size and Weight: 18mm, 3.01g
Obverse: Head of young Mars left, wearing crested helmet.
Reverse: Roman soldier advancing right, fighting with uplifted sword a barbarian soldier before him, and protecting with shield a fallen comrade at his feet.
Exergue: Q THERM M F (THE and MF in monograms)
Ref: RCV (2000) 197; RSC Minucia 19.
Provenance: spellmann(eBay), March 2006; dug in Spain, early 1980s.
BW Ref: 019 024 074
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